XML News from Sunday, March 6, 2005

Nokia has released the final specification for JSR-226, Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API . "This API is targeted for low-end mobile devices with constraints in memory, screen size, and computational power. The goal of this specification is to define an optional API package for rendering Scalable 2D vector images, including external images in SVG format. The main target use cases of this API are map visualization, scalable icons and other applications which require scalable, animated graphics." This is a basically a stripped down DOM/SVG-DOM subset more likely to fit into small devices than the full SVG DOM, along with a few clases for telling applications to display SVG images.